Great Demo from the Xebia Labs Guys

Today we spent an hour with the build and deployment automation gurus over at http://www.xebialabs.com/ going in some depth on their enterprise deployment platform Deployit. It’s basically a Flex-based application for managing the deployment of highly complex JEE software into development, QA and production tiers. It does most of the daily tasks we’re all too familiar with, ranging from dropping an archive into a container to configuring various runtime parameters. What’s interesting about this particular product is the extensibility it comes with - you can write your own extensions in Java, Python or Jython, which is a great selling point for an integration obsessionist like myself. The fact that they wrote in Flex is also a great point, because it means usable UI without the pains of JavaScript/AJAX. I am looking forward to seeing more of the product in the near future.